The Volunteer Management Health Check Guide has been developed to offer general guidance to manage your volunteer programme more effectively, improve volunteer retention, and ultimately enhance your reputation as an organisation where volunteers want to be involved.
The Health Check Guide is designed as a checklist suitable for use by organisations that are putting a new volunteer programme in place or those who wish to audit or improve their current programme regardless of whether you have 2 or 10,000 volunteers within your organisation.
The checklist is divided into 3 stages identifying the various, policies, forms and documents that need to be put in place. It is recommended that items listed in ‘Stage 1’ be put in place first, then items in ‘Stage 2’ and finally the items in ‘Stage 3’. All items in Stage 1 and 2 are relevant to subsequent stages. You may find that some items are more or less important within your organisation and ultimately you must
decide when and how you put these items in place and what works best for your volunteer programme and your organisation.
For guidance and support in putting best practice in place in your organisation please contact do contact the Kerry Volunteer Centre Manager, Geraldine O Sullivan on 066 7117966.
